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{{short description|Venezuelan secret police}}
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{{Infobox law enforcement agency
| agencyname       = Directory of National Security
| nativename       = Dirección de Seguridad Nacional
| abbreviation     = DSN
| formed           = {{start date and age|1938}}
| dissolved        = {{nowrap|{{end date and age|1958|01|23|df=y}}}}
| superseding     = [[Dirección General de Policía|DIGEPOL]]
| country          = Venezuela
| secret           = yes
}}
The '''Directory of National Security''' ({{langx|es|Dirección de Seguridad Nacional}}, abbreviated as '''DSN''') was the [[secret police]] of [[Venezuela]] from 1938 until is disestablishment in 1958.
== History ==
[[File:Manifestantes allanan la Dirección de Seguridad Nacional.jpg|thumb|right|Protesters raiding a National Security Directorate building during on 23 January 1958.]]
The Directory of National Security was established in 1938 in [[Venezuela]].<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado">{{cite web|url=https://www.fundacionciev.com/el-miedo-que-nos-enseno-la-seguridad-nacional-a-proposito-del-23-de-enero/|title=El Miedo que nos Enseñó la Seguridad Nacional. A Propósito del 23 de Enero|trans-title=The Fear National Security Taught Us. About 23 January|access-date=20 March 2021|date=11 February 2021|website=Fundacionciev|language=es|first=María|last=Ramírez Delgado}}</ref> The Seguridad Nacional was active during the presidencies of [[Eleazar López Contreras]], [[Isaías Medina Angarita]], [[Rómulo Betancourt]], [[Rómulo Gallegos]], [[Carlos Delgado Chalbaud]], [[Germán Suárez Flamerich]], and most notably, [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]].<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" /><ref name="archive">{{cite web|url=https://amnistia.ning.com/profiles/blogs/el-irrespeto-a-los-dd-hh-durante-el-regimen-de-perez-jimenez-no-d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203726/https://amnistia.ning.com/profiles/blogs/el-irrespeto-a-los-dd-hh-durante-el-regimen-de-perez-jimenez-no-d|archive-date=14 September 2018|access-date=20 March 2021|title=La Dictadura de Pérez Jiménez no Hizo de Venezuela una Potencia|trans-title=The Pérez Jiménez Dictatorship did not make Venezuela a Power|language=es|date=30 November 2015|first=Daniela|last=Damiano|website=Amnistia}}</ref> The purpose of the Seguridad Nacional was to investigate, arrest, [[torture]], or [[Assassination|assassinate]] political opponents to the Venezuelan government.<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Myers |first=David J. |date=2003-01-01 |title=The Institutions of Intelligence in Venezuela: Lessons from 45 Years of Democracy |url=https://www.iberoamericana.se/article/10.16993/ibero.164/ |journal=Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |publisher=[[Stockholm University Press]] |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=85 |doi=10.16993/ibero.164 |issn=2002-4509|doi-access=free }}</ref> From 1951 until 1953, the Seguridad Nacional operated a prison camp on {{Interlanguage link|Isla Guasina|lt=Guasina Island|es}}, a [[Labor camp|forced labour camp]].<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" />
The Seguridad Nacional was abolished following the [[1958 Venezuelan coup d'état|overthrow of Pérez Jiménez]] on 23 January 1958.<ref name="María Ramírez Delgado" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elimpulso.com/2016/12/04/memoriafotografica-la-caza-la-seguridad-nacional/|title=#MemoriaFotográfica: A la Caza de la Seguridad Nacional|trans-title=# PhotoMemory: Hunting for National Security|date=4 December 2016|access-date=20 March 2021|language=es|first=Carlos Eduardo|last=López F.|website=El Impulso}}</ref> Outraged citizens raided the DSN headquarters after Pérez Jiménez's removal, with some mobs killing DSN members throughout Venezuela and releasing prisoners from their custody.<ref name=":0" />
== See also ==
*[[Bolivarian Intelligence Service]]
*[[List of historical secret police organizations]]
== References ==
{{reflist}}
== External links ==
*[https://venezuela.justia.com/estatales/miranda/leyes/ley-del-servicio-nacional-de-seguridad-1938/gdoc/ Laws of the Directory of National Security – 1938]
[[Category:Defunct law enforcement agencies of Venezuela]]
[[Category:Government agencies established in 1938]]
[[Category:1938 establishments in Venezuela]]
[[Category:Government agencies disestablished in 1958]]
[[Category:1958 disestablishments in Venezuela]]
[[Category:Secret police]]